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=Definition= | ==Definition== | ||
A funeral service coop is an organization where members pool resources, capital, and | A funeral service coop is an organization where members pool resources, capital, and labour to provide death-care services to its members (and families). | ||
=Commons Enclosure and Death Services= | ==Commons Enclosure and Death Services== | ||
Land and | Land, environmental, law, cultural and religious enclosures (among others) have marginalized the practice of commons snd home death care. | ||
Funeral home services are privatized and contracted out. Starbucks has | Funeral home services are increasing being privatized and contracted out. For instance, Starbucks even has contracts to serve coffee at certain funerals. | ||
=External Links= | ==P2P and Death Care== | ||
Guilds and friendly societies have a history of providing death care to members. | |||
Networked p2p forms of social organization allows new forms of death care services. Defining "death" is central to the future of death care services. Already there are memorial services that save aspects of your online presence. Online eulogy services stream your funeral to those who can't be there. | |||
Green or eco-burials internalized ecological costs into death care. | |||
==External Links== | |||
*[http://www.peifuneralcoops.com/West_Prince/ West Price Funeral Coop] | *[http://www.peifuneralcoops.com/West_Prince/ West Price Funeral Coop] | ||
*[http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service_Corporation_International Largest supplier of death care] | *[http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service_Corporation_International Largest supplier of death care] | ||
*[http://businessofdeath.blogspot.com/?m=1 Blog | *[http://businessofdeath.blogspot.com/?m=1 Blog critical of the death care business world] | ||
*[http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_care Wikipedia on Death Care] | |||
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Latest revision as of 12:24, 29 December 2018
Definition
A funeral service coop is an organization where members pool resources, capital, and labour to provide death-care services to its members (and families).
Commons Enclosure and Death Services
Land, environmental, law, cultural and religious enclosures (among others) have marginalized the practice of commons snd home death care.
Funeral home services are increasing being privatized and contracted out. For instance, Starbucks even has contracts to serve coffee at certain funerals.
P2P and Death Care
Guilds and friendly societies have a history of providing death care to members.
Networked p2p forms of social organization allows new forms of death care services. Defining "death" is central to the future of death care services. Already there are memorial services that save aspects of your online presence. Online eulogy services stream your funeral to those who can't be there.
Green or eco-burials internalized ecological costs into death care.